Patents by Inventor Chongming ZHANG

Chongming ZHANG has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250031271
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment. The method includes: receiving, by the UE, an RRC release message transmitted by a network; and in the case that the RRC release message includes a suspend configuration suspendConfig information element, performing, by the UE, the following first action: if the UE is remote UE, entering, by the UE, an RRC inactive state, and performing cell selection or relay selection, or performing cell selection and relay selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Lei LIU, Chongming ZHANG, Renmao LIU
  • Patent number: 12200511
    Abstract: The invention provides a method performed by user equipment and user equipment. The user equipment is configured in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode. The method performed by user equipment comprising: initiating a random access (RA) procedure if a value of a beam failure instance (BFI) counter is greater than or equal to a threshold, the threshold being configured by an information element (IE) beamFailureInstanceMaxCount; transmitting a RA preamble; starting a RA response window, the RA response window being configured in an IE BeamFailureRecoveryConfig; and monitoring a PDCCH on a search space indicated by an IE RecoverySearchSpaceId while the RA response window is running. The user equipment can reliably complete a procedure to recover from beam failure even if the user equipment is configured in a DRX mode, thereby improving the overall reliability and communication efficiency of a communication system related to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei Yamada, Chongming Zhang
  • Patent number: 12075401
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control method for a user equipment, a control method for a base station, and a user equipment. The control method for a user equipment comprises receiving scheduling request configuration information related to a sidelink; and performing a scheduling related to the sidelink based on the received scheduling request configuration information, wherein the scheduling request configuration information is received from at least a network side or a base station side and comprises a scheduling request configuration identity (ID) or specific scheduling request configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 12068982
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment, which can reliably perform processing related to a beam failure recovery request/beam failure report (BFR) and/or scheduling request (SR). The method comprises: detecting a measurement result of a measurement reference signal corresponding to a serving cell; if the measurement result indicates that a beam failure has occurred, utilizing a counter to count the number of beam failures; and when the count value of the counter is above a given threshold, performing processing related to a beam failure recovery request/beam failure report (BFR) and/or scheduling request (SR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu, Ningjuan Chang
  • Patent number: 12052771
    Abstract: The present invention provides a random access method and user equipment. The random access method includes: user equipment (UE) transmitting a message A to a base station, wherein the message A includes a preamble and a payload of the message A; the user equipment (UE) receiving a message B transmitted by the base station and serving as a response message to the message A; determining whether the message B includes a contention resolution ID of the UE; and upon determining that the message B includes the contention resolution ID of the UE, generating a media access control layer control information (MAC CE), or a media access control layer protocol data unit (MAC PDU), or hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information to indicate acknowledgement information related to the message B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu, Chao Luo, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 12047178
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method performed by user equipment and user equipment. The method comprises: receiving control information from a base station, the control information comprising a resource configuration related to a transmission on a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH); transmitting data to other UE through the PSSCH according to the control information; and transmitting to the base station first feedback information related to the transmission on the PSSCH and/or second feedback information related to a transmission on a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) between the base station and the UE. In this way, reliable data transmission can be achieved, thereby improving the reliability and stability of an entire communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu, Shohei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240215096
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment. The method performed by user equipment includes: in the case that the user equipment is in an inactive state and needs to perform small data transmission, triggering a radio resource control (RRC) connection resumption procedure; and in the RRC connection resumption procedure, using, by the user equipment, a predefined default configuration for a data radio bearer (DRB), and restoring configurations in RRC configurations for the DRB other than the default configuration. Therefore, in the case that user equipment is in an inactive state and needs to perform small data transmission, additional signaling overhead can be avoided, and power consumption can be reduced, thereby improving communication efficiency and reliability of a wireless communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Chongming ZHANG, Renmao LIU, Fangying XIAO
  • Patent number: 12021787
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a control method for user equipment, and user equipment. The control method for user equipment (UE) comprises: receiving, by the UE, a channel state information (CSI) request transmitted by other UE; generating, by the UE, on the basis of the CSI request, a CSI report transmitted through a PSSCH, and sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling and indicating the transmission of the PSSCH; and setting, on the basis of whether the PSSCH carries a MAC protocol data unit (MAC PDU), a quality of service (QoS) parameter related to the QoS of the PSSCH transmission included in the SCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 12022343
    Abstract: Provided are a method for radio link failure recovery and user equipment. The method for radio link failure recovery includes: determining whether a radio link failure (RLF) occurs on a radio link of user equipment (UE); when the RLF occurs on the UE, if the UE is configured with a conditional handover, then executing a cell selection procedure; and performing a radio link failure recovery operation according to a cell selection result of the cell selection procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ningjuan Chang, Chongming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11997727
    Abstract: The present invention provides an access control method in user equipment and user equipment that can efficiently and reliably establish a radio bearer for data transmission. The access control method comprises: determining a layer-2 destination ID according to information acquired from an upper layer; and establishing a radio bearer (RB) associated with the determined layer-2 destination ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11974175
    Abstract: A handover control method of a source base station (BS). The method includes: transmitting a conditional handover request to a target BS; when a handover request confirmation message is received from the target BS, transmitting a conditional handover message to a user equipment (UE); and receiving a conditional handover complete message from the target BS in response to a Radio Source Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration complete message being sent from the UE to the target BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu
  • Publication number: 20240032136
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment. A method performed by user equipment, in which user equipment (UE) configured with dual connectivity or multi-connectivity performs configuration management on a secondary cell group (SCG) in a deactivated state during communication with a master cell group (MCG) and the SCG, includes the following steps: receiving, by the UE, an RRC connection reconfiguration message transmitted by a base station to the UE, the RRC connection reconfiguration message including a dedicated cell configuration for an SCG and a synchronization indication, wherein the SCG corresponding to the dedicated cell configuration is a target SCG, a primary serving cell (PSCell) thereof is a target PSCell, and an SCG/PSCell serving the UE before the reconfiguration message is received is a source SCG/source PSCell; and performing, by the UE, different PSCell change operations according to different states of the target SCG or the target PSCell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Chongming ZHANG, Renmao LIU
  • Publication number: 20240008122
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment. A method performed by user equipment is a method of an RRC connection re-establishment procedure performed by user equipment (UE), and includes the following steps: triggering or initiating, by the UE, an RRC connection re-establishment procedure; during initiation of the RRC connection re-establishment procedure, starting, by the UE, a timer T311, and performing cell selection or relay selection; and in the case that the UE has selected a suitable cell or the UE has selected a suitable relay, stopping, by the UE, T311, wherein the suitable cell is a cell of which a measured value or a level value meets a cell selection rule, and the suitable relay is a relay of which a measured value or a level value meets a relay selection rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Chongming ZHANG, Renmao LIU
  • Publication number: 20230413231
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a processing method for a relay UE and user equipment. In the processing method for a relay UE, the relay UE serves a remote UE, and the processing method includes: the relay UE receiving a paging message transmitted from a base station, and confirming a UE identity in the received paging message; the relay UE obtaining a UE identity of the remote UE from an upper layer or an RRC layer of the relay UE; the relay UE determining whether the received paging message includes the UE identity of the remote UE; and if the paging message includes the UE identity of the remote UE, the relay UE generating a paging indication that includes the UE identity of the remote UE or indicates that the UE identity of the remote UE has been received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Chongming ZHANG, Renmao LIU
  • Publication number: 20230388991
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a bandwidth configuration method and user equipment. The bandwidth configuration method is performed by user equipment (UE), and the UE is configured to support or allow inactive state data transmission. The method includes the following steps: after the UE enters an inactive state, if a required condition for inactive state data transmission thereof is fulfilled, the UE activating an uplink bandwidth part (UL BWP) for inactive state data transmission (IDT); and after transmitting uplink data, the UE receiving response information transmitted by a base station side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Chongming ZHANG, Renmao LIU
  • Publication number: 20230337286
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention is a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Chongming ZHANG, Renmao LIU
  • Patent number: 11778535
    Abstract: Provided by the present disclosure are an access control method in a user equipment and the user equipment, which may flexibly control the activation and deactivation of PDCP duplication and the activation and deactivation of a serving cell restriction. The access control method comprises: receiving configuration information related to a data radio bearer (DRB); receiving a media access control element (MAC CE) indicating the activation/deactivation of a packet data convergence protocol layer (PDCP) duplication function of the DRB; when the MAC CE indicates the deactivation of the PDCP duplication function, determining whether the configuration information comprises indication information, the indication information indicating a restriction relationship between a logical channel associated with the DRB and a serving cell which is allowed to be used; and determining a serving cell used for the logical channel according to the result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu, Shohei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230292343
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment. The method performed by user equipment (UE) includes: when a periodically started timer T-active is running, the UE monitoring a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and receiving sidelink control information (SCI); if the received SCI information indicates that HARQ feedback is to be performed, starting a timer T1-retx; if the received SCI information indicates that HARQ feedback is not to be performed, starting a timer T2-retx; and when the timer T1-retx and the timer T2-retx are running, the UE monitoring the PSCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Chongming ZHANG, Renmao LIU, Shohei YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11751254
    Abstract: A method for providing System Information (SI), the method including transmitting information about first associations between a plurality of preamble sequences and a plurality of pieces of SI, and about second associations between the pieces of SI and a plurality of system information blocks (SIBs); receiving a preamble from a user equipment (UE), the preamble including one of the preamble sequences; identifying one of the SIBs based on the one of the preamble sequences, the first associations, and the second associations, the one of the SIBs including one of the pieces of SI associated with the one of the preamble sequences; and transmitting the one of the SIBs to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Shohei Yamada, Renmao Liu
  • Publication number: 20230232341
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment. The method performed by user equipment is a method in which UE, after receiving a command for activating an SCell, triggers a PHR, the method including the following steps: receiving, by UE, an activation command for activating an SCell; when the UE receives the activation command, determining, by the UE, the state of the SCell; and when the UE determines that the SCell is in an activated state before the activation command is received, determining, by the UE, the type of an active BWP of the SCell; and when the UE determines that the type of the active BWP is a non-dormant BWP, triggering, by the UE, a PHR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Chongming ZHANG, Renmao LIU, Fangying XIAO